The filming of the prequel of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is in progress.

This is a love story about Li Mubai, Yu Xiulian and Meng Sizhao. Meng Sizhao is played by Wang Zhiwen.

Lin Zixuan basically looks for actors in his own circle. As for acquaintances, it is easy to discuss whether it is pay or all aspects, so he will not cause conflicts over a small matter and affect the progress of filming.

There is nothing we can do about it. Now there are many actors asking for a lot of prices, and the entire film and television industry is a bit chaotic.

However, Lin Zixuan will not treat his own people unfairly.

For example, Yu Feihong, when filming "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", the salary was 2,000 per episode, and she received a total salary of 20,000 yuan.

The one who offered this pay was that she had just returned to China and had little popularity in China. The role of Yu Xiulian was also a supporting role in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

Even so, she has a much higher salary than Xu Jinglei.

After the TV series was broadcast, Yu Feihong's ancient costume was recognized by the audience and quickly became popular, and some advertisers came to him.

It is easier for an actress to become popular than a male actor. As long as she has a good appearance and has a role that can be remembered by the audience, she will basically become popular. However, how to maintain her state after becoming popular is very important.

Otherwise, it will only be a flash in the pan.

In the prequel of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" this time, Yu Feihong is the heroine, and her salary has increased to 4,000 episodes, and the length of 30 episodes is estimated to be about 100,000 yuan in the end.

Because it is a prequel, both Director Chen and Yu Feihong are more than ten years younger. This is the story of their youth after all.

Fortunately, Lin Zixuan had already planned to film the prequel. When filming "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", the appearance of the two has become much older by applying makeup, so that the audience will not feel abrupt when watching the prequel.

Zhang Jizhong made partial adjustments to the script, focusing on the character creation, and he wanted to create a more realistic world.

For example, the protagonist Li Mubai in the book was born in a martial arts family in Jiangnan. His father was the famous hero Li Fengjie. He learned martial arts with his father since childhood. He became a scholar at the age of thirteen. He can be said to be both civil and military practitioners.

He then made a fuss in the world, became a master of learning skills, and eventually became a hero of the generation, and was a representative figure of the Wudang Sect and the Longmen Sect.

These stories did not appear in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", when Li Mubai was already a great hero of his generation.

The prequel story is rich and complete, the two characters Li Mubai and Yu Xiulian, allowing the audience to see their growth history and make it easier to understand what they did.

The new person is called Meng Sizhao. This person is the second son of the old man Meng of Xuanhua Prefecture. He has been engaged to Yu Xiulian since childhood.

He learned a good martial arts in the world, and his sword skills were not inferior to Li Mubai. Because he couldn't stand the bully's robbers for robbing other people's wives, he was as chivalrous and cut off the bully's feet.

Because he was worried that he would implicate his family after the incident, he ran away from home and hid in the Tie Xiaobeile Mansion in the capital by raising horses.

Meng Sizhao's actions can be regarded as a chivalrous man.

Although Meng Sizhao was missing, Yu Xiulian married into the Meng family as she was in the original engagement. Li Mubai helped Yu Xiulian look for Meng Sizhao everywhere and met Meng Sizhao with a pseudonym in the capital.

The two of them were in a similar mood and became close friends.

When Meng Sizhao learned that Li Mubai liked Yu Xiulian, she planned to help the two men, steal the horse from Beile Mansion and go south to fight with the Jianghu Haoke instead of Li Mubai, and eventually died of injuries.

Wang Zhiwen is from Shanghai. He graduated from the Performance Department of Beijing Film Academy and later worked as a teacher at Beijing Theatre Academy.

Because of the TV series "Enjoy the End", it became one of the well-known male actors in China.

This time, I took on this role mainly for Lin Zixuan's sake. He doesn't like costume dramas very much, or his appearance is not suitable for costumes.

The actor industry is half based on talent and half hard work.

This talent can be said to be a talent for acting or appearance. Some actors have a face that the ancestors can enjoy. For example, Gong Li is not only beautiful, but also has no sense of incongruity in any role.

Besides, although his appearance limits his acting career, he has made up for it through hard work.

Wang Zhiwen read the script and after careful consideration, he agreed to take on the play.

Meng Sizhao is undoubtedly a tragic figure, chivalrous and loyal. After knowing that Li Mubai and Yu Xiulian are in love, they are willing to die in order to help them.

This character is challenging and he is willing to try it.

This "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Prequel" brings together three powerful actors in China, which makes Zhang Jizhong very satisfied.

Lin Zixuan watched the performance of the three on the set and couldn't help but think of another story.

It was a small southern city after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. The war not only left an indelible mark on the small city, but also left a mark of pain in people's hearts.

The local gentry Dai Liyan lost his property in the war, was seriously ill, lost the courage to face reality, and was depressed.

He lives in a dilapidated house with his wife Zhou Yuwen, sister Dai Xiu, and servant Lao Huang.

Zhou Yuwen and her husband have no feelings, and they respect each other as guests. The relationship between husband and wife has long been in name only and life is very depressed.

In the spring of this year, young doctor Zhang Zhichen returned to the small town.

He and Dai Liyan are good friends and Zhou Yuwen's past lover. Zhang Zhichen and Zhou Yuwen have a deep relationship, but they were separated by Zhou Yuwen's mother back then.

Unexpectedly, eight years later, the past lover became the wife of a good friend.

Zhang Zhichen lives in Dai's house and treats Dai Liyan.

His arrival caused great turmoil to Zhou Yuwen's heart, which had long been dead. The two of them often dated with Dai Liyan on their backs, and they sighed when talking about the years in the past. Zhang Zhichen had no choice but to have any helplessness about the current situation that Zhou Yuwen had become someone else's wife.

Their feelings are bound by "propriety and righteousness" and "loyalty and trustworthiness". They are endless and still messy.

Zhou Yuwen struggled in her heart, whether to continue to abide by the wife's morals, or to leave this stagnant town with Zhang Zhichen.

The two suffering men and women have not discussed the results for a long time. Dai Liyan, who had already seen the clues, couldn't bear to drag down his wife. In order to help his good friend and wife, he committed suicide by taking medicine.

After Zhang Zhichen's rescue, Dai Liyan came back to life.

This incident sounded a wake-up call for Zhang Zhichen and Zhou Yuwen. They had to face their own lives. Zhou Yuwen chose to stay with her husband, and Zhang Zhichen chose to leave the small town.

As spring is about to end, Dai Liyan and Zhou Yuwen stand at the top of the city wall and watch Zhang Zhichen walk towards the outside world.

The story of "Spring in a Small Town" is very similar to the story of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

The emotional entanglements of the three people, traditional moral concepts, feelings and *, responsibilities and morality...

This was the attitude of Chinese people towards feelings in the past. Between love and etiquette, they often suppress feelings and abide by etiquette.

With the development of society, the world is getting bigger and bigger, we are becoming more and more free, marriage is free, and we can show it without any scruples, without being ashamed.

From then on, society entered an era of collapse of rituals and music. (To be continued.)

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